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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Kazahstan, like Belarus, has a lot of Soviet nostalgia in their government and on the street level. If Russia tries to re-instate their empire (which I am fairly certain they are trying to do), both those countries might willingly agree to a union.
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Belarus and Russia already formed the "Union State". Kazhakstan's PM has stated he wants a similar arrangement. Kazhakstan is already more or less under Russian economic control in the EAEU.
Anyways, I don't see how this is getting us closer to total war. This is an entire degree of scale less worrying than Russia's invasion of Georgia or the Ukraine was. Russia is already involved in multiple military operations in various post-Soviet states. The Western media is just not very concerned with the goings on in Azerbaijian or Moldova:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_conflicts
This is nothing new.